Word: plighted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...future." Such is the strong, concise language of Dr. Glenn Frank, the able President of the University of Wisconsin. Every individual who maintains the slightest contact with his locality knows the sorry state of the public schools far too well to challenge the truth of this statement. The desperate plight of Chicago was merely the most publicized of many similar instances. All over the country the casual observer will discover many schools closed, others laboring under the handicaps of classes of fifty or sixty, shorter terms, limited curricula, underpaid and unpaid teachers. Every community faces a situation involving...
Precocious and frolicsome, all too many Irish colleens get honest Irishmen in trouble every year by pretending to be above the age of consent. Last week the plight of such duped Irishmen was gravely debated by the Free State Senate. As their champion up rose dignified Senator Maurice Moore, brother of the late great Novelist George Moore, a great hand at describing the frolics of colleens. "I propose," he intoned, "that our girls be obliged by a law which I now propose to the Senate to wear a distinctive dress until they reach the age of consent, fixed...
WEAVING his heroic story against the grim tragic background of the Armenian sufferings at the hands of their diabolically cruel Turkish masters, Franz Werfel has evolved a novel which for richness of narrative detail and skillful completeness has few peers. The pitiful plight of this downtrodden Christian people reached its climax during the early years of the World War when the young Turks set their oriental cleverness to the organization of their nation as solidified national unit on the Western pattern...
...that no gleam of publicity should illumine their plight, student waiters at the Harvard Union have been warned to keep all evidences of dissatisfaction strictly between themselves and the Dinning Halls authorities. In the past the waiters have sought, by petition or discussion, to arrive at a better understanding with their employers, and have each time been granted some trifling concession accompanied by dark hints and sombre intimations. It would suit them far better, the Dining Halls magnates have implied, if professional waitresses were substituted entirely for the present undergraduate helpers. Student waiters, in other words, are employed...
Marvin Hunter ("Mac") Mclntyre, like most of the White House assistants, is an ex-newshawk. During the War he helped handle Navy press relations, afterwards worked for Roosevelt in the 1920 campaign. Later he mooned around the Navy press room, tried to peddle freelance stories on the plight of the fighting fleet. From Pathe Newsreel Louis Howe got him back for the pre-convention campaign in 1932. A genial fellow whose hollow cheeks and sunken eyes belie his good disposition, Marvin Mclntyre made himself valuable as Franklin Roosevelt's contact, first, with the Press, later with politicians and bigwigs...